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Leipzig: Wednesday 28 May 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Leipzig will open at 13:00 on Wednesday 28 May due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Frankfurt: Thursday 5 June 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main will open at 13:00 on Thursday, 5 June due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 will be open from 9:00 to 21:30.

Dissertations and postdoctoral theses

University doctoral regulations specify how a university publication can be made accessible to the public. In general, online publications must be deposited at the German National Library. If a university publication is also published in a physical format with identical content, only the online version will be included in our collections. However, if there are discrepancies in content or if the publication is distributed in physical form only, two mandatory copies must be deposited. Here the number of copies published is immaterial.

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